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The monotreme family includes the echidna and the platypus.
During the breeding season, a female echidna develops a rudimentary pouch - just a flap of skin - on its abdomen. The female echidna manages to lay a single egg in its pouch, and incubates the egg there. When the young hatches, it is fed on mother's milk which seeps from milk glands, not teats like other mammals. When the young echidna begins to develop its spines, it is transferred to a burrow to continue its development. The mother still cares for it for many more months, teaching it to forage for termites and ants.
The mother platypus, on the other hand, prepares a chamber at the end of a burrow especially for the purpose of protecting the young. After she lays one to three eggs, which have already developed within her body for 28 days, she curls her body around the eggs to incubate them for another ten days.
After hatching, the mother platypus feeds her young on milk secreted from glands, rather than from teats. The young are blind, hairless and completely vulnerable. They are suckled by the mother for 3-4 months, during which time she only leaves them to forage for food. As she leaves the burrow, the mpther platypus makes several thin plugs made of soil along the length of burrow; this helps to protect the young from predators which would enter the burrow during the mother's absence. When she returns, she pushes past these plugs, thereby forcing water from her fur and helping to keep the chamber dry.
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Are echidnas born or hatched?
Echidnas are hatched. They are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals.
Are koalas- born alive or hatched as an egg?
Koalas are marsupials; therefore, they are born alive. Monotremes are the only mammals hatched from eggs, and the only monotremes are the echidna and the platypus.
How are young monotremes different from dogs or cats?
Young onotremes are hatched from eggs. They are not born live, fully developed and able to function independently of their mother like kittens and puppies can.
Do platypuses and spiny anteaters give birth to young alive?
No. Platypuses and spiny anteaters, more correctly known as echidnas, are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals. The young are hatched, not born.
Do monotremes eat their young?
Monotremes never eat their young.
Are Platypuses born naked?
Platypuses are not born. They are hatched. Platypuses are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals. And yes, when first hatched, they are completely furless.
Do kangaroos babies come out in eggs?
Kangaroos are mammals, and marsupials, which means they are not born from eggs. The young emerge from the birth canal and crawl up to the pouch where they continue their development. The only mammals hatched from eggs are monotremes, which include just platypuses and echidnas.
Do monotremes feed their young milk?
Monotremes do not have nipples like most mammals, so the young can't suckle milk. Instead, monotremes have pores that ooze milk. The baby monotremes then lap up the milk.
Can a platypus walk on the day it is born?
No. Firstly, platypuses are not born: they are hatched. Platypuses are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals. When they are hatched, they are blind, hairless and completely helpless. A newly hatched baby platypus is about the size and weight of a bean.
Does the female python give give birth to its young or are its young hatched from eggs?
hatched from eggs
What class of vertebrates are hatched from an egg on land?
There are two such classes: Reptilia (reptiles) and Aves (birds). Additionally, 5 species of monotremes, a group of mammals, are hatched from an egg on land.
Name a mammal that is born from an egg?
Nothing can be "born" from an egg: it must be hatched. The order of mammals that lays eggs is Monotremata, or the monotremes. Platypus and Echidnas are the only monotremes, or mammals that lay eggs.
